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HexaTech and Tokuyama Collaborate to Produce Record UV-C LED Performance

(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Morrisville, NC and Tokyo, Japan (PRWEB) October 03, 2012
The rapidly accelerating interest in light emitting diodes (LEDs) for disinfection applications operating at UV-C wavelengths requires a solution with high output power, high efficiency and long lifetimes. HexaTech, Inc. today announced the results of an ongoing collaboration with development partner Tokuyama Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, which has demonstrated exceptional output power and dramatic internal quantum efficiency (IQE) improvements. These results raise the bar to what is possible with the technology, and enable commercially available high performance, high reliability UV-C LEDs.

“This collaboration demonstrates that when combining HexaTech’s market-leading bulk substrate quality, with Tokuyama’s high quality HVPE and excellent device fabrication, breakthrough, record-setting results are possible”, noted Joe Grzyb, HexaTech CEO. “It further highlights our commitment to working with our customers to bring the best in aluminum nitride technology to market.”
“Working together with HexaTech and their substrates, Tokuyama has made great improvements in the performance of our UV-C LEDs, accelerating the process for their commercial availability “, stated Mr. Toru Kinoshita, Chief Research Engineer at Tokuyama Corporation.

Since their inception, UV-C LEDs have held the promise of a compact, highly efficient, long-life light source for sterilization and purification applications. However, most commercially available products currently struggle with limited output power, efficiency and device lifetimes. A key requirement for improving these limitations is to drive the device defect density down, for which IQE is a key measure and is critically related to the underlying bulk material quality.

“As HexaTech’s own device development has shown, using our high quality, low dislocation material, we are able to produce UV-C LEDs with record-setting reliability and lifetimes, exceeding more than 600 hours of accelerated testing, with virtually no degradation”, commented Dr. Baxter Moody, HexaTech Director of Device Development.

About HexaTech
HexaTech is an industry-leading manufacturer of single crystal Aluminum Nitride (AlN) substrates. This substrate material will enable long life UV-C light emitting diodes (LEDs) for disinfection applications, deep UV lasers for biological threat detection, and high voltage power semiconductors for smart grid and efficient power conversion.

HexaTech’s current product lines include single crystal and polycrystalline AlN substrates. Long life UV-C LEDs and high voltage power devices based on AlN substrates are also in development.

Founded in 2001 with a team of industry experts in III-nitride semiconductors, the team has successfully solved complex material science and engineering challenges to commercialize high quality bulk AlN for volume production. For additional company and product information, please visit us at http://www.hexatechinc.com.

About Tokuyama
Tokuyama group is producing and selling mainly chemical products such as soda ash and caustic soda, vinyl chloride monomer/polymer, film products, fine chemicals, medical materials, electronics materials, cement, plastic window sashes and so on, as well as providing services related to those products. Tokuyama Corporation was founded in 1918 and has 5600 employees. For additional company and product information, please visit us at http://www.Tokuyama.co.jp/eng/index.html.